Paint Beyond Walls is a nonprofit creating community art projects in urban and rural spaces across the Middle East and North Africa.

Beyond borders.

We strive to make creative expression accessible beyond social barriers and limitations. We’ve partnered with local stakeholders to design and implement projects grounded in the expertise of lived experience.

From murals by Syrian refugee youth in Beirut and internally displaced families in Erbil to visuals centering disability rights and inclusivity.

Beyond age.

Over a decade, we’ve collaborated with rural and urban communities on murals in Jordan, Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraqi Kurdistan, and Morocco.

Our impact goes beyond artistic output, cultivating understanding across cultures, nationalities, and other identity-based divides.

Beyond limitations.

We partner with, mentor, and empower youth, emerging artists, and students to plan, organize, and realize creative projects to benefit their own and others’ communities.

Over 80% of our project participants are youth under the age of 24—as are a third our board and over 70% of our team.

Meet the Team

  • Brian Manley

    FOUNDING DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT

  • Dave Sherwin

    PROJECT PHOTOGRAPHER AND BOARD MEMBER

  • Tsedenya Girmay

    CREATIVE CONSULTANT

  • Tanner Manley

    BOARD MEMBER

  • Mostafa Olwan

    LEAD DESIGNER

  • Zoya Farid Farooqi

    PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER

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